Mīrnā Mahdī

Mirna El Mahdy (Mīrnā Mahdī, ميرنا المهدي) is an Egyptian novelist and screenwriter born in Cairo in 1997. A graduate of the Faculty of Languages (Al-Alsun) at Ain Shams University, she writes crime fiction and mystery. Her debut series, Taḥqīqāt Nūḥ al-Alfī (The Investigations of Nuh al-Alfi), began in 2018 and follows an investigator in downtown Cairo who sees the spirits of the dead. Her later novels, including Ṣadīqī al-Sīkūbātī (My Psychopath Friend), appear from Dar Noon and Dar al-Karma.